📺 Ditch Summit Day 6: Teacher AI literacy + St. Jude

New sessions with Holly Clark/Ken Shelton/Matt Miller and St. Jude

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Matt Miller
December 22, 2025

 

It’s Day 6 of the Ditch Summit! (View all previous summit emails here.)

We’re a week into this year’s Ditch Summit!

If you’re like me, the holiday season is starting to feel really real. (In fact, I’m finishing this email up so I can go shopping with my wife … and no, that’s not scary, it’s kind of like a date!) (Actually, on second thought, the crowds we’re going to see? THOSE are scary.)

Maybe you have some time to watch — while wrapping presents, folding laundry, taking the dog for a walk, etc. All 100+ sessions are available in our Ditch Summit Video Library.

But if you don’t have time? No shame. No pressure. The summit is open until Jan. 11, so you have time!

♻️ Day 5 recap

In her session, Dr. Janell Blunt showed us how to apply cognitive science to the classroom in very practical ways! She teaches full-time, too, so she shared how her brain science research can be used in a classroom to help students learn — and improve their long-term memory. It was super helpful!

Misbah Gedal from Wakelet showed how Wakelet can be the canvas that students use to collect and share their work and their learning — where all of the apps your students use all play nicely in one central location.

See every Ditch Summit that’s available on our Video Library page here.

In this email:

  • 🔎 Spotlight Sponsor: Students saving lives in partnership with St. Jude

  • 📺 Featured Speaker: What Teachers Need to Know about AI in 2026 with Holly Clark, Ken Shelton, and Matt Miller

  • 📚 The Ditch Summit Library: All videos in one place

  • ❤️ Know someone who would love the Ditch Summit?

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📢 New speaker days: 6 days down, 2 to go
We’ll send Ditch Summit emails every day thru Wed. Dec. 24, when all speakers will be released (then less frequent emails until the summit ends Jan. 11).

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🗓 Ditch Summit: 6 days down, 22 days to go
The Ditch Summit closes on Jan. 11, 2026. After that, sessions + resources are unavailable until next year’s summit.

🔎 SPOTLIGHT SPONSOR 🔎

How Your Students Can Save Lives by Partnering with St. Jude

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is dedicated to treating kids with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

Families never receive a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food — so they can focus on helping their child live.

When St. Jude opened in 1962, childhood cancer was considered incurable. Since then, St. Jude has helped push the overall survival rate from 20% to more than 80% within the U.S., and we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.

You and your students can help support these efforts! (Psst … you can win prizes, too …)

Here’s how:

  1. Watch today’s St. Jude Spotlight Sponsor Session to learn more about their programs.

  2. Request more information about hosting a Math-A-Thon fundraiser at your school to raise money for St. Jude.

Educators host Math-A-Thon fundraisers in the spring to help prepare students for state testing — and to support a worthy cause at the same time.

🎁 BONUS: If you use the “request more information” link above, you can win prizes from St. Jude!

  • Complete a Math-A-Thon by March 31 to win a FREE copy of one of my books!

📺 FEATURED SPEAKER 📺

What Teachers Need to Know about AI in 2026 (and Beyond)

AI has changed rapidly — especially in the last three years. We’re starting to see its effects in the classroom, in school districts, in the workforce, and beyond.

It’s nearly impossible to keep up with the new apps and all the changes — and the progress in the development of AI technology.

If you feel overwhelmed, you’re not alone.

What do teachers need to know about AI in 2026 — and beyond?

In this session, you get the three founding faculty of The AI Fluency Lab — Holly Clark, Ken Shelton, and me (Matt Miller).

We created an online certification course — Teacher AI Literacy Level 1 — to answer this very question.

More than 600 educators from all over the world have taken it — watching the instructional videos, downloading resources, and interacting in the discussion baords.

In today’s new session, we will share some of our favorite tips from the course — as well as new things we’re learning and sharing since the course opened.

Watch any Ditch Summit session from previous years on the Ditch Summit Video Library page any time.

❤️ Know someone who would love the Ditch Summit?

Then let’s spread the Ditch Summit love and help them get involved!

Enjoy today’s sessions — and any of our previous Ditch Summit sessions. I’ll see you in your inbox tomorrow with two more great new sessions!